Posted on 11/10/2013 6:34:15 AM PST by IbJensen
Throw-away track phones bought at a nearby dollar store. Private investigator hired to trail working mom. Massive document shredding days. Bashing of hard drives. Office Chaos. Wow. Is this the latest fiction novel on a crime themed best seller list?
No. These are actual references in US House of Representatives hearings on the massive Social Security Disability Fraud Scandal. Honest and dedicated federal employees, sickened and disgusted over the theft of money and services of US taxpayer dollars filed a whistleblower lawsuit to blow the lid off of a scandal that looks to bankrupt a federal agency founded for the sole purpose of giving truly disabled Americans the benefits they need.
A Social Security Disability Office on the border of Kentucky and Huntington, W. Virginia, is at the center of federal investigations into the activities of SSD supervisors who turned over huge numbers of cases in order to boost their own bonuses. They set up shop with one attorney, an administrative law judge and several obliging doctors for several years.
“I’m flabbergasted,” said Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), himself a physician, as he grilled witnesses for hours about the massive loss of taxpayer dollars. “You abrogated your job as chief judge,” Senator Coburn told Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Charlie Andrus. The alleged misdeeds of Judge David B. Daugherty were heard without his direct testimony because he fled the hearing room before proceedings began. And the attorney in question, Eric Conn, took the fifth on the advice of his own attorney.
Most pitiful to watch was the testimony of four female witnesses who told the Governmental Affairs Committee about numerous incidences of retaliation by SSD managers, supervisors, and even Judge Andrus himself who admitted playing a role in video taping Senior Clerk Sarah Carver, one of the principles in the whistleblower lawsuit. Still employed, Carver, along with master docket clerk Jennifer Griffith, blew wide open the skullduggery that transferred about 2.5 billion taxpayer dollars into the benefit entitlements of disability claimants who were merely numbers on “DB’s Monthly Lists.” Carver said, “You could see massive numbers of favorable decisions going out. . .massive amounts of numbers.” She explained how the Conn-Daugherty scheme worked. The administrative law judge selected, or forum shopped cases by accessing computer selection lists he logged into from Master Docket clerk Griffith’s only web file. Each month, Attorney Conn’s office manager Jamie Slone, under the alleged direction of the attorney, made sure the ALJ received these lists for processing by this same judge who, according to testimony, spent as little as 10 minutes per claimant on pre-completed forms!
Attorney Conn became the nation’s third highest paid disability lawyer and Daugherty approved an astounding 99.5% of cases, granting benefits to practically everyone who applied. The national average for claimant approval is about 50%. And what’s even worse is the cover up and complicity of the federal Social Security supervisors who allowed this travesty to continue for years! Senator Coburn pointed out that this fund is scheduled to go bankrupt in 18 months, so honest American citizens who sincerely are disabled on the job won’t be receiving compensation!
What with the IRS scandal, the Bales disappearance for about two years from the EPA, this Social Security Disability fraud, and now the loss of countless millions of taxpayer dollars thanks to Obamacare, no one is being held accountable. In fact, the EPA head even held a party for one supervisor who let that department’s dishonest use of services go on and on.
Is there anyone in the Obama administration’s senior tier who will fire anyone?
Long past time to thin out and eliminate half of this monstrous behemoth that aid and abet a criminal occupying the White Hut and his 1,000 person WH staff and the staff that fills up all Congressrat offices.
Disability. It takes an accomplished disability scam lawyer and one of a myriad of administrative law judges that has a bleeding heart (or a hand out for a bribe).
this administration is a criminal enterprise for the purpose of stealing
It will be worth the disruption and suffering that may temporarily result from purging/firing/arresting ALL those criminal perps in the bureaucracy. The compromised degenerates know who they are...Justice will find them and prevail.
The whole concept here was to throw as much gummint $$$$$$$ at potential Democratic VOTERS as they possibly could, then obfuscate the issue as long as possible whilst keeping up the flow of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Seems to be working JUST FINE.
Yeah. I won’t argue with that. We have pretty much reached the tipping point. The government doesn’t even verify benefit claims for the ‘downtrodden’ if they seem a likely Democrat voter.
Another socialist scheme built on the backs of dead Americans.
126 trillion in FORCED socialist MANDATES…(here)…
The nation would benefit greatly from a REAL shutdown and while we’re at it default on ALL obligations.
This, then, would finally bring our corrupt and evil central socialist government to its knees.
Perhaps the bloated states’ bureaucracy would get a wake up call.
We’re Americans, we’re pissed off and we’re NOT going to take it any more, so clean out your desks and get out of town.
Oh, I forgot one thing. We need a marshal.
Not with Eric Holder at the helm over at the Justice Dept.
“Is there anyone in the Obama administration’s senior tier who will fire anyone?”
No.
“Senator Coburn pointed out that this fund is scheduled to go bankrupt in 18 months...”
Our friends on the left call this “fear mongering.”
Cloward-Piven.
Cloward and Piven could have accelerated the implementation of their strategy if they had sold it to lawyers and corrupt bureaucrats as a get-rich-quick scheme.
Hasn’t it occurred to the left that every government “insurance” scheme eventually collapses in bankruptcy? Sometimes over and over again?
quote - IRS knowingly sends .... IRS is sending $4.2 billion per year to illegal immigrants as an “additional child tax credit” for children who don't even live in the U.S. - unquote
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-sent-7319518-refunds-one-bank-account-used-2706-aliens
http://nypost.com/2013/11/07/irs-sent-655-tax-refunds-to-a-single-address-in-lithuania/
ANd now they are intent on controlling health insurance monies - which is another 20% of our economy.
What could possibly go wrong?
(And why is no one reporting the truth - that this ‘act’ has just enough to do with health care to smoke screen the real agenda: TOTAL CONTROL of every aspect of our lives?
They use fancy mental gymnastics to blame Republicans:)
As long as we’re kept outta office, the Grandfather of All Ponzies will remain intact. Now please pass the bong...
Of course they get bonused-the goal is the destruction of the traditional American way of life and these people are doing their part!
This outright looting of the fund points to the excesses of the government unions. They've set up a system where you get bonuses for either giving money away, or in the case of the IRS, collecting as much as possible from the taxpayers.
The bonuses encourage employees to work for themselves rather than to improve the service the agency is supposed to provide.
“Long past time to thin out and eliminate half of this monstrous behemoth that aid and abet a criminal occupying the White Hut and his 1,000 person WH staff and the staff that fills up all Congressrat offices.”
Over the past 25 years corporate America has gone through waves of downsizing in order to become efficient and globally competitive while government has become bloated with layers of bureaucracy and red tape. In the private sector downsizing forces the organization to be efficient by dropping unnecessary tasks and eliminating layers of administrative management that delay decision making.
In turnaround situations it is not uncommon for a new CEO to permanently eliminate 10% of management positions during the first week in order to cut expenses and reorient the remaining employees to working more effectively and efficiently. Productivity gains are normally experienced as employees focus on the critical mission, eliminate unnecessary tasks, and deliver results faster.
The federal agencies in Washington have become so bloated they could use a 25% immediate reduction in headcount. A skillful CEO, appointed to head an agency and empowered by Congress to improve performance, would review the numerous activities the agency is performing and eliminate those not supporting or conforming to the primary mission. Eliminate completely the departments or work groups that don’t support the mission. Eliminate the outside contractor work, and grants to nonprofits, that exist purely as a political payoff. Take out layers of staff to make the headquarters function lean and responsive of the activities in the field.
The sequester should be accomplishing the same result but are not because community organizers and political hacks are implementing it plus the cuts are not deep enough.
Anyone who got cash fraudulently should do jail time. None of this “community service” bilge. Obama has the most corrupt administration in history, quite a feat after the Clintoons.
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